While still in awe composing my thank you notes, I wanted to say something about this….
The baby shower our friends gave us was a beautiful and a decidedly adult event and I loved it. There were human surprises, amazing cocktails (of which I had none, but that’s OK), pregnancy photo gallery, costumed photo booth, crazy crazy mad-libs, blog quiz, reading of an original poem and a gift of bottle of champagne (a contender for my labor medication, in lieu of an epidural. A shot of vodka or this bottle of zinfandel Chris has been saving are two others). It was a great time and all of this made the gift receiving portion of the day a little less awkward for me than it could have been. So, cheers and love to all our awesome friends!
A selection of pictures are on Baby Shower Photos page.
And here is the hilariously funny poem by Jen R. Johnson, written on scrap piece of paper, in the spirit of this “green” event:
Baby Bruza Koch
Chris and Alisa did not need to try
To stop trying not to made DNA fly
Near right away they could read AB’s charts
There’d be a new life taking a place in their hearts
And what does one do in the face of new life?
Oh just plan a home birth and find a midwife!
But there’s much more than that, the prep never ends
As you get rid of things that contain parabens
Search on the internet, read each right book
Green and organic for Baby Bruza Koch
A little Not a Desmond sung into the room
“Just turn off the light switch when you leave the womb!”
(Jen, not sure if I copied it right, correct my errors!)